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Let's Rethink How We Spend Money on Downtown

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Don’t you suppose that before we drop another 90 grand of the taxpayer’s money into yet another study of the down town that we ought to spend, Oh say 200 bucks to have the weeds removed from around the trees on 3rd? 

For your information folks at City Hall, that is the street  we dropped a few million to spruce up. 
Well the trees having been dieing, no thanks to the people who frequent the area and tend to use them as there own "break off what ever you want its okay",  but the problem of the weeds growing around the base of those trees is yet another matter. 

If you want those merchants, or what is left of them,  to go out and clean up the mess, then you had better tell them. 

You also might want to re think those little lamps posts which get kicked off faster than a field goal at a BC Lion’s game.    In fact, even the big light standards aren't  doing too well.


You might also want to blow the dust off some of those multitudes of past studies that examined what is needed in the down town. 

We are constantly told, all you need is people living down town and the area will change. Well take a walk along the avenue’s at night, or for that matter during the day, and then write and tell me if that’s the kind of area you would like to live in.  If you do, then the Backpacker Motel's new homeless shelter, must be right up your alley.

That is one man's opinion
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